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A single drink sold in Starbucks contains 25 teaspoons of sugar

Hot drinks sold in British coffee shops can contain up to 25 teaspoons of sugar, the equivalent of three cans of Coca Cola or seven chocolate biscuits.

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Action for Sugar, which surveyed the UK's high street coffee shops, found that 98 percent of hot flavoured drinks on sale would receive a warning sticker for excessive levels of sugar per serving, if sold pre-packaged.

Starbucks's Hot Mulled Fruit Grape with Chai, Orange and Cinnamon (Venti) was the worst offender, with 99g of sugar per serving, the equivalent of 25 teaspoons. A Costa Chai Latte, Massimo, Eat In has 79.7g of sugar, or 20 teaspoons per serving. A single McVitie's Milk Chocolate Digestive, by comparison, contains 4.9g of sugar.

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The maximum recommended intake of free sugars (those not in milk products or whole fruit and vegetables) is seven teaspoons for an adult. The campaign group surveyed 131 drinks in total and found that 55 percent contained the equivalent of, or more than, this limit.

In total, 35 percent of the hot drinks surveyed contained the same amount or more sugars than a can of Coca Cola, which contains nine teaspoons per can.

Other "worst offenders" included the Starbucks White Chocolate Mocha with Whipped Cream (Venti) at 18 teaspoons of sugar per serving and the Starbucks Signature Hot Chocolate (Venti) with 15 teaspoons. All the drinks were surveyed in January and February 2016.